PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2019

Since about mid-December of 2018, checking out in the stores here in Boston has become even more of a hassle. This newfound friction is the result of the City of Boston passing a bill that bans plastic bags and gives merchants the right to charge for ones made of paper. The ability for merchants to surcharge in the U.S. is nothing new.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2018

Mastercard’s “Grow Your Biz” contest for SMBs in Boston, Massachusetts, concluded in December. More to Love became an official business in 2013 and only continued to grow from there. Mastercard and Bank of America know it’s not easy. That’s why these industry giants make a point of giving the little guys a leg up whenever possible.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Founded in 2013, the firm has recently raised its first ever capital round of $45 million after almost five years of bootstrapping. Sports teams, including the San Francisco 49ers and the Boston Celtics, also invested. “We We want to be there for people who want a long-term athletic lifestyle,” CEO Daniel Sobhani told a tech outlet.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 5, 2017

RI and YG: Our pricing model works very similar to any retail convenience store. Building a service that works with our customer’s lifestyle, not against it, no matter the lifestyle — this is the essence of the goPuff mission. PYMNTS: How does the pricing model work, and how does goPuff get paid?

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PYMNTS

MARCH 23, 2017

Or you happen to be the Boston-based QSR chain, starting about 2013. There’s usually not a whole lot of drama in the burritos and smoothies business, well, unless one decides to order a Cajun burrito, extra spicy.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

There is no shortage of startups that enter the wild world of direct-to-consumer (DTC) retail to address a hole in the market that leaves a massive number of consumers underserved. And the Boston-based brand’s only shop is located right next to the finish line for the Boston Marathon.

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Retail Marketing Boston Training 101

PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2016

The weather in Boston – and it’s about darn time. Apple’s first retail store overhaul in 15 years is hailed by just about everyone as a Grand Slam Home Run – and the store hasn’t even opened yet (it will, in SF, on Saturday). But they, like so many storied retail brands, are going through a bit of a spiraling down.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2016

The Index includes in-depth research on more than 100 retailers across the U.S. To compile the index, researchers in Boston; Chicago; Charlottesville, Virginia; and Seattle shopped merchants across three channels: web, app, and in-store. We researched a breadth of merchants in the Top 500 based on total U.S.

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Independent Banker

MARCH 15, 2015

Customer contact centers are reshaping retail service for the technology age. Certainly for the largest banks, contact centers are evolving into digital retail centers, managing new digital channels to handle more customer support activities previously conducted in-person at branches. Bob Meara, retail banking expert.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

I, Shopper, take thee, Online Retailer, to be my faithful partner in commerce. Today, fewer than a third say that membership in loyalty programs drives their choice of retailer. Today, fewer than a third say that membership in loyalty programs drives their choice of retailer. How very unlikely these days. Who’da thunk it?

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Retail Payments Online Mobile 90

Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 14, 2015

We spotted founder Will Grayling on the CBS Evening News last night demoing the technology at a Manhattan retailer. ” LoopPay was founded in August 2013 and remains headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts post-acquisition. The company won Best of Show at FinovateSpring 2014 for its demonstration of Loop and LoopWallet.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

have a retail crisis — or a small business crisis? Which is why “fixing” retail must include giving SMB merchants the tools they need to compete in the very dynamic environment that now defines Retail U.S.A. By 2013, those numbers had deteriorated — and by a lot. So, what does this all have to do with retail?

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PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2016

Although the traditional retail industry in the U.S. If we break down “essential items” into three categories — food, clothing and shelter — we’re looking at a trio of verticals wherein each one has still had to weather the storm of the current retail climate in its own way. Sort of, but also — not exactly. million items.

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PYMNTS

JULY 20, 2017

According to one Hansa listing that survived the initial purge of fentanyl listings, a single gram of “China White Synthetic Heroin Fentanyl” retailed for $122.35. Therefore, said Isak Ladegaard, a Boston College sociologist focused on dark web markets, this move by Hansa, while noble, is unlikely to reduce traffic of the drug.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Between 2008 and 2013, investors increased the amount of money under management in ETFs by more than 3x, with nearly half of that going into ETFs issued by BlackRock. A few years into the Volcker ruling, however, the investment banking divisions of the world’s biggest banks were suddenly less profitable than retail and other divisions.

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CB Insights

MARCH 26, 2019

GET THE 54-PAGE RETAIL TRENDS REPORT. Not all in-store retailers have fallen out of favor with millennials the way department stores have. 70% of millennials say that they shop at off-price retailers like TJ Maxx and Marshalls. Between 2006 and 2015, off-price retail sales went from $18B to $35B — a jump of 94%.

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CB Insights

JULY 19, 2017

Retail/Consumer Goods. From their humble, skunkworks-style origins in Palo Alto to their current offices in Sunnyvale, Cupertino, Seattle, and Boston, they’ve scaled up to attack new projects but keep the same focus on experimentation and innovation that helped them build the first Kindle. Founded: 2013. Retail/Consumer Goods.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Steering the ship — handling all of the engineering, manufacturing, marketing, and retailing, even when you’re taking 90 percent of the subsequent profits — was ultimately too expensive of a proposition, especially in comparison to other, less-handholding-oriented start-ups. via Beta Boston. ” via Boston Globe. via Forbes.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Most surprising was the sudden shutdown of Sprig, a startup in the beleaguered food-delivery space that first received funding in 2013. Mobeam launched back in 2010, pitching a complex solution to a problem that most couponers didn’t know exists: Most retail scanners can’t read a barcode off a mobile device. Product: Guvera.

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